Michel Potay
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Michel Potay, a French citizen (b. 1929), is the author of The Revelation of Arès[1] and The Pilgrim to Arès (Le Pèlerin d'Arès)[2]. He is considered to be a prophet by a small group of followers,[3] the Ares Pilgrims, who call him brother Michel.
[edit] Bibliographical information
- January 1, 1989, ISBN 2901821030
- First bilingual edition in 1995. ISBN 2901821073. OCLC 36797899
[edit] References
- ^ The Revelation of Ares back cover
- ^ What are the books "Le Pelerin d'Ares"
- ^ Lester, Toby (February 2002). "Oh, Gods!". The Atlantic Monthly 289 (2). “The ultimate dream for any ambitious student of new religious movements (NRM), of course, is to discover and monitor the very early stirrings of a new movement and then to track it as it evolves and spreads around the globe. Everybody acknowledges how unlikely this is. But the idea that it could happen is irresistible. One scholar I met in London who admitted to harboring such hopes was Jean-François Mayer, a tall, bearded, boyishly enthusiastic lecturer in religious studies at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland. For the past twenty years Mayer has been following a small French movement known as the Revelation of Arès. Founded in 1974 by a former Catholic deacon named Michel Potay, and based near Bordeaux, the movement describes itself as the corrective culmination of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. "It is an NRM," Mayer told me, "that has all of the constitutive elements of a new religion of the book: new scriptures incorporating previously revealed scriptures, new rituals, and a new place of pilgrimage. When I study such a group, I see such obvious similarities with the birth of Christianity and the birth of Islam that for me it's fascinating and exciting. Sometimes I let myself think that I might be witnessing something similar at its initial stage." Even if the movement doesn't take off—which, Mayer readily admits, is likely—it is a perfect example of what many NRM scholars like to study.”
[edit] External links
- ADIRA: Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de la Révélation d'Arès (The Revelation of Arès International Diffusion Association)
